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Governing Global Land Deals

By Wendy Wolford

Governing Global Land Deals Law

Governing Global Land Deals

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Over the past decade, there has been a dramatic increase in large-scale land deals, often from public lands to the hands of foreign or domestic investors. Popularly referred to as a 'global land grab', new land acquisitions are drawing upon, restructuring and challenging the nature of both governance and government. While 'the state' is often invoked as a key player in contemporary land deals, states do not necessarily operate coherently or with one voice. This collection of essays brings clarity and understanding to the entity of 'the state', analyzing government and governance as processes, people and relationships. Focusing on relations of territory, sovereignty, authority and subjects, the essays in this collection explore the highly variable form and content of large-scale land deals in different settings around the world, illuminating both the micro-processes of transaction and expropriation, as well as the broader structural forces at play in global land deals. The authors do not assume a priori that there is a necessary character to land deals, rather they frame the deals themselves quite broadly, as embedded in complex multi-scalar webs of relationships shaped by power, property and production.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
288
Release Date:
2013-10-18
Publication Date:
2013-11-04
Publisher:
Wiley
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1118688260
ISBN13:
9781118688267
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
369 g
Height:
151 cm
Width:
228 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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